Awesome RED Scarlet Slo-mo Test Shoot and Skate Opera
Skateboarding, Fire, Cop Cars, Post-Apocolyptic, RED Scarlet… what more do you want?
This film was directed by Jarred Land and features Matt Bennett on board. Gnartifact posted it on facebook and we just had to share it on TeamJADED. All the info and a download link are here.
Riding the Long White Cloud
I miss skate trips. This documentary series makes me want to hit the road.
Riding the Long White Cloud was a bicycle skate trip [through New Zealand]. It was shot and edited by the Vancouver based FriendlyFire productions.
It features pro skaters Cairo Foster, Chris Haslam, Silas Baster Neal, Kenny Anderson, Keegan Sauder, Rick McCrank, and John Rattray.
Travel and skate.
Gang of Fourstar
Reading Boil the Ocean has become at least a biweekly occurence for me. You’ve probably noticed the many topics I’ve borrow from them, and this is yet another.
Gang of Fourstar is a brilliant example of art direction in skate videos (if you can even call them that anymore). …I don’t mean “art” in the way that Workshop vids (which I love) scream Koyaanisqatsi. There aren’t any elements in this video that shout “we totally, like thought super hard about how to make crazy interstitials and trippy montages.” It’s just shot well… really well.
The direction presents itself through thoughtful compositions and portrait b-roll that leans heavily on the long lens, and plays to the strengths of those HD Panasonic’s that Ty Evans ushered into skate film vernacular. …Or to put it another way, the video is pretty… and it has a more real than real, film quality that comes from a combination of that brilliant HD and sparse usage of the fish angle.
Good job to Meza and Bagley. I’ve enjoyed watching Girl camp quality push skate video production. I get psyched when I see how far we’ve come from the Century death lens dominated VX1000 days of the 90′s.
On a side note… Are we seeing the death of the death lens? I hope so.
If you can’t get the vid to play at Fourstar, try this (via the Boil the Ocean comment section):
Sean Says:
October 13, 2009 at 8:03 am | Reply
Some smart cookie at Slap posted this:
open up quicktime
go file > open url
and paste http://www.fourstarclothing.com/videos/gang_of_fourstar.mov_disabled_due_to_saturation_DreamHost_JK
click ok
Supercharged this Saturday
Our friend Pete Koff just sent over the premiere dates for Supercharged: the Life and Times of Tim Brauch. If you’ve been reading the blog then you know that we’ve helped out a little on this film. In fact the video posted above is the open sequence that Jeremey cut a month or two ago. (It has an alpha channel, which is why it goes to black.)
We can’t wait to see the finished project on the big screen. Be there.
SUPERCHARGED DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE DATES:
San Jose at Camera 12 Cinema
Saturday September 26,
First show @7pm(doors at 6:30) and 9pm(doors at 8:30)
201 South Second Street San Jose, CA 95113 (408)-998-3300
San Francisco at the Victoria Theater
Thurs Oct.1 at 7:30pm(doors at 7)
2961 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 863-7576
Santa Cruz at the Rio Theatre
Thurs Oct. 15th at 8pm(doors at 7:30)
1205 Soquel Avenue Santa Cruz, Ca 95062 (831) 423-8209